Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-18

A large business in the manufacture of
liquid carbonic acid is being built up by
an sntorprising German firm. The liquid
is used for various industrial purposes.
1t is used for charging beer in the cask,
in the manufacture of seltZe- waters, and
for fire extnguishers. BY its expansion
the Krupps of Essen subject their great
castings to the enormous pressure of l.
200 atmospheres. Its gas is also expect
ed TO prove valuable for initiating balloons
to raise sunken ships, heavy weights hav-
ing been very quickly raised from the sea
bottom by its aid.
THE Now York labor commission in
.heir annual report include brushes in the
list of articles which they suggest
for manufacture by convicts. But here
comes a CORES pondent of John Swim
toms Paper" with tho assertion that
probably there il no business carried on
in this country that has suffered as much
from prison competition as brush max
ing 1t is utterly impossible to name
any article that can be made in prison,
which if made, will not compete more or
less with free labor, Mt least this will be
the claim of the labor organizations.
An unsuccessful attempt has just been
made in New York city to substitute the
eye of n Belgian here for that of Mr.
Chas A. Williams, the city editor of the
Minneapolis Tribune, the use of which
he lost II years ago by the explosion of
fire cracker. The object was merely
to got substitute that would move in
harmony with the original and not to
give sight as that was out of the ques-
tion. The eye of the hare was about
the same size and color as the original
one. The operation, entire lasted an
hour and n quarter. The connected
parts refused TO grow together and a
glass eye had to be put in.
In his will the late Gen. Durbin Ward
gave his niece, Ella Ward, the jewel
mounted sword which had been presented
To him by the priyatss of his old regi
nent lie enioins her that she shall de
liver it to her eldest son, should she ever
be blessed with one, and if he should die,
to the next eldest in succession, and with
the charge never to draw it in bad cause,
and to never leave it sheathed should
good ono require it's aid, and to command
him also TO send it down to posterity to
tho eldest son in tho direct line so long
"a any Ward blood can WELD Il sword, un-
til that blessed time shall como when all
swords shah be beaten into plowshares."
THE only curiosities brought to light
by the drodgo since tho work was begun
ON Cape Cod Canal have been strange
collection of about fifty figures carved
in oak. which are supposed to have re-
mained under the sand and water of the
mars for the past century or more. The
story goes that the artist who executed
them was poor demented fellow by the
name of Nye, whose fouJuess for Sand
wich belle by the name of Hester Temple
led him to seek employment for his lei
sure time by carving her efligy and vari-
ous cabalistic signs upon pieces of oak
and hiding them in the bitches of water
which furrowed the marsh
TER death of General Hazen has caus-
ed much discussion on the iect of the
signal service. Short-sighted people
have abused it, Enthusiasts have ex-
tolled it. just now there is feeling
that congress will take the service ont of
the war department and place the whole
machinery within the bureau oG agricul-
ture. There is no question about the
value of the service to the agricultural
and shipping interests of the county. Its
weather forecasts are deemed of enough
Importance to have been cabled every
day TO the meteorological Office of Lon
don, and that, too, without a cent of ex-
pense to this government. It is claimed,
on good authority, that last winter S.
per cent of the cold wave signals were
verified. This season the orange grow
ers in Florida have eagerly watched the
indications and by running their fruit
trains on special time on calculations
based solely on the service reports. have
prevented great loss to themselves
TurRx are two old school medical col
leges in Cincinnati. These are the Ohio
and Miami. While belonging to the same
school of medicine, they are rival institu-
tions, and the doctors never succeed in
agreeing about anything. The lines be
tween the respective institutions are
pretty strictly defined, aud these run
through practice and society also. From
the beginning, or since there were two in
stitutions, there has been lively contest
for the privileges of the Cincinnati hos
pital. 1t lies with the trustees to decide
which faculty shall enjoy the privilege,
which is regarded as valuable. Some
time ago the trustees seemed to tire of
the contest between the two colleges for
the control of the hospital, and decided
TO place the Miami and Ohio upon an
equal footing. Subsequently the trustees
changed their minds again, and the reso-
luton opening the hospital to both fac
mites was repealed, and thereupou the ex-
elusive privilege was awarded to the
Miami. This was 8 very sour dose for
the Ohio, and il was made uncomfortable by
an announcement in the circular of the
Miami college that 1t had the exclusive
right to the privileges Of the hospital
The Ohio decided not to stand this, so il
has appealed to the legislature. The lat
ter has been asked TO pass bill giving
TO each college the privileges of the hos
pital in proportion to the number of stu
dents in attendance. The Ohio, having
in students about three to one of the
Miami, it can be seen where the shoe i:
liable to pinch.